I live in New Jersey. I'm not thrilled with High School. In fact I immensely dislike it. My family is not rich, but is not poor, so money is an issue, but not a major issue. I'm a dual-US/UK citizen. My grandparents and uncles/aunts live in the London area. What is the best way I can convince them to send me to an independent boarding school 3000 miles away?
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I hear you. I hate high school. I dropped out at age 17 and due to mental problems (depression, attempts to kill myself other issues) my parents got permission for me to take an early GED test. I was just one year shy of the cut off date) So I am glad to hear you don't want to drop out. I'd say draw up a list of reasons to go and not go. If your school has a lot of crime mention that. My parents had no idea of the crime in my school till I told them years later. (I dropped out in 1992 things then were as bad as they are now). Talk to maybe a school counselor if you have one you can trust. Maybe he/she can get on your side. Talk to your aunt, uncle, grandparents maybe they'll help too. Expect your parents to be unhappy. They will no want you to go and it is faraway plus a whole other country. Come up with alternatives too. I homeschool my kids. Here in GA you just need a GED to do that I love learning along with my kids even though my oldest is only doing 5th-6th grade work. So mention homeschooling, going to an online school, a USA boarding school and others. This why you'll give them some other options. But mention you'd love to go to a UK boarding school. Make a list of why and what it would take to get your there. Also make sure you talk to them when they are not busy. When mom is making dinner is not the time to bring up a life changing conversation. lol Ask her to listen to you without interrupting and then you do the same for her. Good luck. High school was awful for me so was jr high. lol So I understand.
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